Look on the world as a bubble
Look on the world as a bubble, look on it as a mirage. The King of Death never finds him who views the world like that.
Come, look at the world as a gilded royal carriage, in which fools get bogged down, while men of understanding have no attachment to it.
Even if previously careless, when a man later stops being careless, he illuminates the world, like the moon breaking away from a cloud.
Buddhist Scripture – Dhammapada, Sayings of the Buddha, 13 The World, translated J. Richards https://www.cheraglibrary.org/buddhist/dhammapada/dhamma13.htm
Buddhism
Buddhism originated in India, based on the teachings, of Siddhartha Gautama, later known as Gautama Buddha. A Buddha is one who is said to be awake to the truth of life.
Over the centuries his teachings spread from Nepal to Central Asia, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, China, Mongolia, Korea, Japan, and now Europe and North and South America. Theravada Buddhism is most common in South Asia; Mahayana further north. Buddhism exists in many different strands today, but all schools and sects share basic ideas. About seven percent of the people of the world are Buddhist.
While many people see Buddhism as a religion, others see it as a philosophy, and others as a way of finding reality.
From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Four Noble Truths and The Eightfold Path Explained
When Buddha reached Enlightenment, he decided to spread his teachings. He understood that life brought about suffering and that in order to be free from it, we must observe certain ways and know certain wisdom. With that, he taught the most important elements of Buddhism, the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path.
The Four Noble Truths explains how suffering is part and parcel of our lives but there is always respite from it. On the other hand, the Eightfold Path teaches the proper way of living in order to achieve freedom from suffering and enlightenment.
https://teachingsofthebuddha.com/the-four-noble-truths-and-the-eightfold-path-explained/
Mystical Tibet Concert
Mystical Tibet Concert Philip Glass and Tenzin Choegyal with Camerata
Buddhist Society of Western Australia
A Buddhist centre serving the global community irrespective of age, colour or creed. We offer numerous resources and support to those interested in practicing the Dhamma.
Collection of dhamma teachings. https://bswa.org/teachings/
Introductions to Buddhism
I am listing below those pages and videos that seem to be informed by good scholarship while being reasonably short and interesting. They address some of my first questions such as what the Buddha taught about “no self”, which texts derive from the Buddha and which were probably added later and whether that matters, and what Buddha said about God or an ultimate reality.
- Alan Peto https://alanpeto.com/collections/basics-in-buddhism/#.YJRgTrUzaM8
- Doug Smith https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPIyEJzvW7SsbiIrooixjNA
A Brief Look at Buddhism and the Bahá’í Faith
It is all too easy to pinpoint the obvious differences between the modern practices of Buddhism and the Bahá’í Faith. But it isn’t all that difficult to draw profound parallels either. After all, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá described the Buddha as “the cause of the illumination of the world of humanity
Sam Karvonen on Bahaiblog.net April 25, 2013 https://www.bahaiblog.net/2013/04/a-brief-look-at-buddhism-and-the-bahai-faith/
The Common Goal of Universal Peace in Buddhism and the Bahá’í Faith
To the Bahá’ís, Spiritual Luminaries like the Lord Buddha and Bahá’u’lláh have always been the basic link between humanity and that Ultimate Reality Who has been the Source of achieving spiritual success, social order and progress.
A paper delivered to the Asian Buddhist Conference for Peace 16 September 1990 https://www.bic.org/statements/common-goal-universal-peace-buddhism-and-bahai-faith
Buddhism and the Bahá’í Faith
Article by Moojan Momen 1995
Buddhism is acknowledged in the Bahá’í writings as one of the great world religions and its founder, the Buddha, is accorded a rank and station equal to that of all of the founders of the great world religions.
Moojan Momen https://bahai-library.com/momen_encyclopedia_buddhism
A Bahá’í Meditation set to Buddhist Music
Yá Bahá’u’l-Abhá – An invocation – Life’s Journey (Meditation – Affirmation) UPLIFTING SOULFUL MUSIC, Described in a comment on Youtube as follows: “Lovely, it’s exactly set to the tune of one of my favorite Tibetan mantras, Om Mani Padme Om, love it, best of both worlds!”